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designed and installed in accordance with NFPA 72. The operation of any <br />automatic fire detector, sprinkler waterflow device or manual fire alarm box <br />shall automatically sound an alert tone followed by voice instructions <br />giving approved information and directions for a general or staged <br />evacuation in accordance with the building's fire safety and evacuation <br />plans required by Section 404. In high -rise buildings and Group 1 -2 <br />occupancies having occupied floors located more than 55 feet above the <br />lowest level of fire department vehicle access the system shall operate on <br />a minimum of the alarming floor, the floor above and the floor below. <br />Speakers shall be provided throughout the building by paging zones. At a <br />minimum, paging zones shall be provided as follows: <br />1. Elevator groups. <br />2. Exit stairways. <br />3. Each floor. <br />4. Areas of refuge as defined in Section 1002.1. <br />5. Dwelling Units in apartment houses. <br />6. Hotel quest rooms or suites. <br />Exception: In Group 1 -1 and R-2. 1 occupancies, the alarm shall <br />sound in a constantly attended area and a general occupant <br />notification shall be broadcast over the overhead page. <br />Section 907.6.3.2 High -rise buildings is revised to read as follows. <br />907.6.3.2 High -rise buildings. High -rise buildings and Group 1 -2 <br />occupancies having occupied floors located more than 55 feet above the <br />lowest level of fire department vehicle access a separate zone by floor <br />shall be provided for all of the following types of alarm- initiating devices <br />where provided: <br />1. Smoke detectors. <br />2. Sprinkler water -flow devices. <br />3. Manual fire alarm boxes <br />4. _Other approved types of automatic detection devices or <br />suppression systems. <br />,() Section 907.6.5 Monitoring is revised to read as follows <br />907.6.5 Monitoring. Fire alarm systems required by this chapter or by the <br />California Fire Code shall be monitored by an approved supervising <br />station in accordance with NFPA 72, this section, and per Orange County <br />Fire Authority Guideline "New and Existing Fire Alarm & Signaling <br />Systems ". <br />Ordinance No, NS -XXXX <br />75A -27 Page 13 of 84 <br />